These No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake Cups are an easy make-ahead dessert. Layered with a Biscoff cookie base, a silky smooth Biscoff cheesecake filling and then topped with melted Biscoff spread, these dessert cups are heaven in a cup and the ultimate Biscoff dessert for easy entertaining. This easy Biscoff Cheesecake Cups recipe is an absolute winner!…
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How to Make Ice-Cream with Condensed Milk
Try this super easy recipe to make ice-cream with cream, condensed milk and vanilla essence. If you don’t have an ice-cream maker then this is the recipe you need to follow to make vanilla ice-cream at home. There are some crucial tips though to make this recipe a success, so read on!
Easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe (with Ice Cream Maker)
The best recipe for homemade vanilla ice-cream, ever! This recipe has no eggs and is made with an ice-cream maker. The ice-cream is super creamy and tasty and comes together very easily with just 5 basic ingredients. I am a mother of 3 boys and every month we have a full moon ice-cream tradition. I…
Traditional Basque Cake
Tasty Basque cake! It is basically a tart with custard inside together with a heavenly taste of almond essence. Yummy! We first had this when we travelled to Spain to do the Camino De Santiago de Compostela with our kids. Our very first night was a communal pilgrims meal and this was the dessert. It…
Claire’s Famous Chocolate Cake
Delicious tray bake Chocolate Cake that is decadent and moist. The icing is melt in your mouth and the recipe is quick and easy to make. You know when a recipe makes its way into your kitchen and it’s titled “Claire’s Famous Chocolate Cake” or Susan’s or Mary’s or Jenny’s or Barbara’s or Betty’s then…
Mini Doughnuts
Bite Me!! These mini doughnuts are a complete and utter treat. I always used to think only bakeries could make doughnuts. But no!! No no no!! We can too!! My goodness, if only I had known how EASY it is to make these melt-in-you-mouth balls of deep-fried dough, I would have tried a lot sooner!…
Mini Custard Tarts
Happy Spring day beautiful people! I like to celebrate the start of spring with a cake or tart, something summery to set the tone for the glorious warm days to come. Now, Custard Tarts topped with berries are just the thing I had in mind but they felt very intimidating. They were the kind of…
Easy Jam Squares
I made these easy Jam squares during the initial 3 week lockdown in March last year, yip that long ago already! Thank goodness we have moved on from there, right?! This recipe has been waiting patiently, since then, to feature on here. So let’s give it a warm welcome shall we! They were wonderful little…
Mom’s Homemade Chocolate Ice-Cream
So this recipe is for those of you with ice-cream machines, which I realise may not be a lot of you BUT, I can tell you that an ice-cream maker is worth the purchase. We make this chocolate ice-cream recipe every full moon. My boys love the tradition and they now know the meaning of…
Chocolate Oat Instant Cookies
My boys are loving these little no-bake chocolate oat cookies aka “instant” cookies. And to be honest, so am I. The wickedness lies in the fact that they only take like 10 minutes to make, start to finish. And then they are easy to eat of course.
Step-by-Step Tiramisu
I made this fancy-looking Tiramisu with my 11-year old neighbour, Chloé. Well actually, she made it. She is Belgian and so we followed a French recipe. That may sound like I can follow French recipes which would be terribly misleading. She followed the recipe and I read the pictures. Yes, this beauty of a French…
Naartjie and Vanilla Wildflower Cake
Hello and Happy Spring! I thought a little wildflower cake would be the perfect way to celebrate a new season. And a new season it is! As you may (or may not) know, sheet cakes have long been a favourite of mine (See the Carrot Sheet Cake here, then there is the popular Lavender & Lemon…
